Untangled · A path through the family crisis.
A structured path for families facing a child's substance use.
Untangled applies the most-studied family-side intervention in the field so parents move from panic to a method you can actually run — one conversation, one boundary, one choice at a time.
- 8 wks
- live cohort + async lessons
- 1 cohort
- 10–15 parents, one coach each
- 30 min
- weekly 1:1 with your coach
- 30 yrs
- of CRAFT research behind the method
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A free 60-minute masterclass on the family-side method most parents have already tried to assemble on their own. Held Oct 11, 2026, 11:00 AM ET.
Built on the method with three decades of outcome research.
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Community Reinforcement and Family Training
The only family-side approach that consistently improves the child's outcomes AND lowers the parent's depression and stress.
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Hazelden Betty Ford and public-health curricula
The curriculum your local Hazelden Betty Ford clinic and a number of regional public-health programs run — chosen for the same reason we use it.
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Built for families where the child is not yet ready
The single method with evidence for moving a child from intermittent contact toward accepting help — without arguments or ultimatums.
Founded by a Hazelden Betty Ford-trained family-recovery coach with eight years guiding parents through treatment, household structure, and the conversations that move things.
Four program-area callouts — the curriculum is a connected practice, not a stacked checklist.
Most parents we work with have already paid for two of these areas and are about to pay for the third. Untangled treats them as one connected practice — because that is how they actually run inside a household.
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Motivational communication
The conversation patterns that move a child toward change — without arguments, ultimatums, or surveillance.
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Household boundary-setting
A clear, repeatable method for the rules, consequences, and daily structure that protect the rest of the family.
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Treatment & insurance navigation
A parent-side coach walkthrough of the local treatment landscape, level-of-care, intake paperwork, and what your plan actually covers.
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Parent self-preservation
Sleep, marriage, friendships, work — a curriculum section most programs leave out, even though it is where parenting capacity lives.
We are very explicit about who Untangled is — and isn't — for.
We would rather you spend a half hour reading this than sign up for a masterclass that is not the right shape for your family this season.
Probably the right shape
- Your child's substance use has crossed a line and you have moved past pure panic into “what do I actually do.”
- You are open to a structured method — not a hotline, not just another Facebook group, but real progression across weeks.
- You can commit roughly three hours a week for eight weeks and want the same thing from your cohort peers.
- You are in (or willing to enter) treatment with your own coach or therapist where relevant.
Probably not the right shape
- You are in acute medical crisis right now — call 988 or your local emergency line first, then reach us.
- You want a quick fix. The program expects eight weeks of honest practice.
- You’re looking for a peer text line. Partnership to End Addiction's service is a better single-channel fit.
- Your child is not yet open to any conversation. The program assumes at least intermittent contact.
Sign up — we'll send you the link and a one-sentence prep check.
A free 60-minute live session: CRAFT, the cohort model, and a real answer to "is this for our family right now." If the answer is no, we will tell you that too.
- Sat
- October 11, 2026
- 11:00
- AM ET · 60 min
- Free
- no card needed
- Live
- Q&A, not pre-recorded
The questions we hear before every masterclass.
If your question is not below, write to untangled-unraveling-the-crisis-reclaiming-the-pea@polsia.app.
Start with the free masterclass. Then decide.
No card, no commitment. The masterclass explains CRAFT, shows you a real cohort session, and answers the “is this for us” question out loud. If the answer is no, we will tell you that too.